William Illingworth Taylor sketching in the field Accession Number: ART90937

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Portrait of VX14985 William Illingworth Taylor, staff artist with AIF News, working on a pencil sketch. He is in a seated position with his paper on his lap and his artists materials spread about him. The sketch was made by Walter Beaumont, an artist with the Military History Section. The drawing is mounted on brown paper, on which Sgt Taylor has noted under the drawing that the pair were in the Lebanese mountains and were "detailed to instruct intelligence personnel in the art of panoramic sketching" at the time.

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Accession Number
ART90937
Artist
Lieutenant Walter Gilbert Beaumont
Classification
Art
Object Type
Work on paper
Medium
Charcoal on paper
Date Made
1942
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Donated 1998
Copyright
Unlicensed copyright

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